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Show You Can Now Plan and "Build" Tour All-Electric Kitchen on Your Dining Room Table at Home i ances. For example, should you select an 8 cu. ft. refrigerator you need a total of 24 cu. ft. of dry storage space close at hand for foods awaiting preparation. Home economists at Hotpoint, Inc., have determined that a three to one ratio of dried to refrigerated refrig-erated foods make a very adequate ade-quate storage center. The cabinets cab-inets over and near the range should contain the condiments and such dry foods as cereals and others that go directly to the range from the package. Of course, the equipment and utensils used for cleaning should be near the dishwasher . , All the fore- going steps in I IjQLJjwiUf building your HpOHsSSflSLj kitchen on the Ufcsfml OtQ, dining room I ftyliesP" table can be y accomplished in the same " time it has Uken to read about them, if you bare no unusual complications. When you start to plan an all-electric all-electric kitchen for your new home, or to remodel your present one, a neighborhood kitchen planning plan-ning specialist or appliance dealer can help you "build the new kitchen kit-chen on the dining room table weeks and months before construction con-struction gets under way. He probably is no magician, bat he brings the kitchen, in- aading draperies and samples for oer covering, so that you may : select everything from the room arrangement to the fittings. Today, To-day, Hotpoint, a leading producer of electric kitchens and this includes in-cludes planned home laundries has outfitted thousands of kitchen dealers with miniatures of all the automatic pushbutton appliances appli-ances that have been developed to save the housewife time and work. The planning specialist will drop around in the evening when the family ia together, carrying little black suitcase. When the ease of kitchen fittings is opened, the kitchen engineer opens his suitcase and pulls out board divided into on inch squares made of linoleum or composition beard. This is floor for the kitchen kit-chen you are going to "build." ) If you are building a new home Tea may have architect's draw, tags showing the room sise, win. dews, doors and radiator locations. loca-tions. The visiting specialist takes TsajMfc these drawings HBBfcbaptraartE and places UJRjSj llir walls which TTlrrl mu't your I 5cS)irErll I new k'tchen on f miniature " are going to I U-Tya Dctlgs remodel your j present kitchen he measures its dimensions and makes a floor plan Ion a pad of squared paper. When the basic room is "constructed" "con-structed" you are ready to select nd place the floor appliances and Cabinets. There will be the re-- re-- frigerstor, the electric range-perhaps range-perhaps in the apartment house size as well as the standard; the sink enclosing the dishwasher oi separate dishwasher which can stand alongside the sink; a selection selec-tion of base and wall cabinets ir various sizes. Among his aids for kitcher planning, the specialist will hav diagrams which show three, oi possibly more, basic kitchen designs de-signs such as the common "L" shape, the "U" shape; or, th kitchen in which the appliance: are arranged along opposite walls. After selecting the basic floor design for your appliances, you determine how each should be placed in order to create the greatest accessibility to other parts of the house and the outdoors. out-doors. For example, the refrigerator refrig-erator will be located at the point nearest the door where supplies arrive. The rang Is frequently at the point closest to the dining room or eating nook. Most kitchen .planners prefer to have the sink sometimes called the "clean-up center" because it can Include the food disposal and automatic dishwasher between these two points. Foods taken from the refrigerator usually go to the sink before they reach the range. This works in reverse as . . , . t t meal left overs vX -TtzL. are transferred KrfoTvfTvf??! to storage con-J con-J 1 1 tW?a( 111 tainers at the SSli Mg4U-T sink and then I T tS7fiPri Ptaeed in the I I Upl-4 j refrigerator. l-f!g--UiLs 1 Also the cen- ' I f5f ter position of ' ' ' ' the sink makes Woll-Typ. D.igi water convenient conven-ient to both refrigerator and range. Another point that the special-, special-, 1st will advise is to have a window win-dow above the sink. This not only . permits better light for cleaning . jobs, but also offers a view when you are doing chores at the sink. . When the floor layout has been settled, you select the wall-cab-i inets. There are different size! for areas over working counters i the range and the refrigerator The number of these handy stor-l stor-l age units is limited only by th wall space available. In a wel!-nlanned kitchen th amount of space, needed in th ' wall-cabinets should be deter. mined to a considerable extent i according to the specific appli- Th nest, and probably as Important Im-portant as any other step in the process, is th selection of the colors and type of decorations you want to "personalise" your kitchen. Yoo hav two basic elements ele-ments to consider th floor covering and th tops on your base cabinets. diM CW Mum The color scheme of your curtains and any decorative pieces that enter in are equally important impor-tant but, unlike the floor and the base tops, they can frequently be changed. The floor and the cabinet cab-inet tops will be with you many years if not for the rest of the time you may use the house, and they must have colors and patterns pat-terns that you know you will enjoy en-joy living with. Many of the larger department stores and home furnishings stores have divisions which not only supply floor coverings and , drapes, but also take a complete contract for the appliances and all other fittings. This type of i transaction has one advantage in , that it assures you that a single "family of mechanics" will do the entire job. Also, you have to deal ! with only one merchant. If you are going to build or s remodel, by all means make in-s in-s quiries about this "build-it-your- self-in-miniature" service. It ; takes much of the guess work out of procuring your new kitchen. |